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SUMMARY:Bathing\, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery
  - Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading)
DTSTART:20190131T153000Z
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CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:Focusing on 12th-century English monastic communities\, this p
 aper considers three practical applications of healthcare undertaken withi
 n medieval monasteries. While the great monastic libraries would have cont
 ained medical manuscripts\, the collection of such items varied from house
  to house and\, more importantly\, such materials would not have been acce
 ssible to the majority of the cloistered community. The practices of bathi
 ng and bloodletting\, and the allowance for bed-rest\, however\, would hav
 e been experienced and witnessed first-hand by many of the community. As s
 uch\, these practical applications have the potential to offer us insight 
 into the healthcare within the monastery\, and into monastic understanding
 s of health and the body.\n\nWithin this paper\, the three practices will 
 be taken in turn to consider their uses\, and concerns about their abuses\
 , in order to draw attention to the practicalities of claustral healthcare
 \, and to pose questions regarding medical practices within the monastery.
  The questions raised by this paper are also key to my next proposed resea
 rch project\; a project that intends to consider the experiences\, underst
 andings and practicalities of monastic healthcare within the Anglo-Norman 
 world.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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